EUROBATS Publication Series No. 6 “Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects” was translated into Japanese language by the Bat Study and Conservation group of Japan, which has a working group on wind turbines.
The traslation is available online both on the BSCJ website and as a PDF below

Merling D. Tuttle, the founding father of US bat conservation made a statement: searches for new viruses in bats are unlikely to contribute substantially to human health, but they may threaten the future of bats.

Migration season of 2017 is in full swing in Pape Ornithological Research Centre, where thousands of bats have been ringed since 2014. This year has set off as a slow one, with only ~1000 bats ringed, but a lot more are still to come. Some of the bats already ringed include 745 Nathusius’ bats (Pipistrellus nathusii), 62 Soprano pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) and a number of Parti-coloured bats (Vespertilio murinus) and other species.

Recent news from the "Monitoring Fledermauszug in Deutschland" project: starting from 13th of August 2017, 20 bats (12 Nyctalus leisleri and 8 Pipistrellus nathusii) will be tagged in East Germany (Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt) with 150 MHz-band transmitters for tracking their susequent migration routes. The project heavily depends on the participation of amateur radio operators across Europe and Northern Africa. The project coordinator is Mr. Hans-Joachim Vogl: DG1HVL.

We pleased to annonce that Dr. Elena Godlevska with a financial support of the Rufford Foundation has translated the leaflet to Ukrainian, which became the tenth language for this publication. It is available online both on the EUROBATS and UCEBA (Ukranian Centre for Bat Protection) websites.